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Strandshag Bay, Derwent Water
Strandshag Bay
site name:-   Derwent Water
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bay
coordinates:-   NY26612209 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2622
10Km square:-   NY22


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BPQ01.jpg (taken 24.8.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 6) 
placename:-  Strandshag Bay
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Transhag End
item:-  slatecharcoaloakbarklead ore
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
image CL13P082, button  goto source
Page 82:-  "... [Grange, Borrowdale] ... The river is navigable hither, when the water is pretty high, for boats, which carry down blue slate, wood, charcoal, oak, bark, lead-ore, &c. to Crow Park, or Transhag-End."

evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Der) 
placename:-  
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of Derwentwater and its Environs, scale about 13 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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CL152622.jpg
bay 
item:-  private collection : 169
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1819
placename:-  Strands Hagg
source data:-   Print, aquatint, Derwent Water from Strands Hagg, Keswick, Cumberland, by William Green, 1819, published by R Lough and Co, Chronicle Office, Finkle Street, Kendal, and others, 1820.
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Tipped in opposite vol.2 p.106 of The Tourist's New Guide, by William Green. 
printed at bottom right, centre:-  "Vol.2, page 106, line 11. / DERWENT WATER from STRANDS HAGG. / Published at Ambleside, Augt. 1. 1819, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1141.21
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